This week in the House, I supported a resolution empowering a full inquiry into President Biden’s interactions with his family’s foreign business dealings. Records obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability reveal the Biden family and their business associates have received over $20 million in payments from entities in foreign countries including Russia, China, and Ukraine dating back to 2013.The payments, alongside President Biden’s official actions and use of alias email addresses during his time as Vice President and possible efforts by his administration to disrupt criminal investigations into his son Hunter, demand further investigation and oversight empowered by this resolution.
While this week’s vote did not initiate articles of impeachment, formalizing an inquiry was necessary because of the Biden administration’s obstruction of our congressional investigations. House committees of jurisdiction have sought to follow the facts; however, President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has refused to allow two attorneys to testify before the Judiciary Committee, and the White House has stated it will not comply with congressional subpoenas or interview requests without a formal vote.The House’s approval of the impeachment inquiry asserts congressional authority – ultimately improving House committees’ ability to utilize the judicial system to compel testimony and document production as they work to uncover the truth.
For months now President Biden has denied knowledge of and involvement in his son Hunter’s dealings with foreign companies.This simply does not hold true in light of the evidence. Among the most concerning facts is Hunter Biden’s 2014 appointment to a position for which he had no qualifications on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Records show Burisma executives worked with Hunter to lobby U.S. officials for help as the company faced a fraud investigation by a Ukrainian government prosecutor. Then, in 2015, then Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine and gave a speech attacking the prosecutor and conditioning delivery of $1 billion in International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans sought by Ukraine upon his firing.The prosecutor was fired in February of 2016.
